Dr Oliver Hartwich writes – Last week, an Uber driver surprised me in a conversation about the recent Court of Appeal decision classifying four Uber drivers as employees rather than contractors. My driver was blunt. He has no desire to be an employee. He values his flexibility to take breaks and drive when and where […]
Uber ruling – driving in the wrong direction
Uber ruling – driving in the wrong direction
09 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: employment law, Uber
Texas professor fired, then reinstated after a lawsuit, for teaching that chromosomes determine human sex
23 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, employment law, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
In general, one can’t say that chromosomes “determine sex” in animals, as there are other genetic or environmental features that determine what sex an individual becomes. As Coyne and Maroja (2023) note: Different sexes can determined during development bybe based on different chromosomes and their genes (e.g., XX vs. XY in humans, ZW vs. ZZ in birds, […]
Texas professor fired, then reinstated after a lawsuit, for teaching that chromosomes determine human sex
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order
Robert Lucas: Labor Reform and Crisis Recovery
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: employment law
Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Bill That Killed Freelance
11 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: employment law
Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
Who pays for employee non-compete clauses?
13 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: employment law
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
But French laws are so crap that the tribal council on the Survivor TV show were successful sued for unjustified dismissal & redundancy pay
15 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, television, unemployment Tags: employment law, employment protection, France, Spain
When a Spaniard moved to backward Minnesota
10 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unions Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, employment regulation
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